It cost $5,000 to demonstrate the fact, but no one now denies the fact that Chinese can be taught to play well any ball game—footbali, cricket, baseball. The Honolulu Chinese not only showed that they could play ball, but that they could play good ball, having defeated the best American team Shanghai could produce. The meeting at Hongkew Park cost 30,000. The gate yielded $18,000, the Peking Government contributed $5,000, and the remaining deficit was subscribed by local Chinese.
The ¥.M.C.A. have six foreigners and a large Chinese staff engaged in physical training work. They have central branches at Shanghai, Tientsin, Peking, Hankow, Cantor Foochow, Hongkong, and Chengtu.
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